Quotes About Irony

Of course all that these young bourgeois really wanted was to be aristocrats. They bought titles, married into aristocratic families whenever they could. And it's one of the little jokes of history that they got mixed up in the Revolution, and helped to abolish the class which in fact they really wanted to join.

beauty meant nothing because it came from the despair inside him, and it had nothing to do with the despair finally, because the despair wasn't beautiful, and beauty then was a horrid irony?

The very thing that attracts you to someone can end up putting you off.

Didn't it often happen, she thought, that aged parents die exactly at the moment when other people (your husband, your adolescent children) have stopped being thrilled to see you coming? But a parent is always thrilled, always dwells so lovingly on your face as you are speaking. One of life's many ironies.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator--our very self-consciousness--is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Irony is always the best weapon against facism.

The problem is that it's hard to aim a rifle when your heart is pounding, which points to an irony of modern combat: it does extraordinarily violent things to the human body but requires almost dead calm to execute well.

The smallest viable market is the focus that, ironically and delightfully, leads to your growth.

He kills her in her own humor.

She found it ironic that, even after marrying twice and raising four sons to manhood, the workings of the male brain remained such a mystery to her.

Here I was, rushing off to save my little brother from pirates, only to find that he fancies being a pirate himself!

Stephen reached out to her then, entwined her fingers in his. It was not difficult for me. You must understand that. For me, it was an easy choice, for it was the only choice. I know, she said again, and coming into his arms she clung tightly, resting her cheek against his chest as she sought to comprehend the ultimate irony, she who had no irony at all in her soul, that the qualities she most loved in Stephen were the very ones that were crippling his kingship.

The ISI may well be Pakistan's answer to the Holy Roman Empire, which was neither holy, Roman nor an empire: it

I always think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat turkey like everybody else.

Shit, he said. I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN.

Did you know that you can be killed by a benign tumor? Imagine that news headline: Native American poet killed by oxymoron.

She's gone, she's gone.' Paul sang the chorus of that Hall & Oates song. He sang without irony, for he was a twenty-first-century American who'd been taught to mourn his small and large losses by singing Top 40 hits.

Far be it from me to ever let my common sense get in the way of my stupidity. I say we press on.

No good deed goes unpunished- Syn

That was you who hit me with the float? (Talon) Yes. (Dionysus) Damn, boy. You've fallen a long way down. Yesterday Greek god…today incompetent float driver. (Camulus)

I can tell you love him. (Syn) Yeah, like a boil in my nether regions. (Kiara)

Dammit, Vik. How can you not know what's wrong with this thing? Can't you commune with it or something? (Devyn) My name is not 'Dammit, Vik' and I find it ironic that you think I can commune with all metal beings when you can barely communicate your point of view to your own parents. And they birthed you. I did not give birth to this ship. Last time I checked, I was male and that would be impossible on a multitude of levels. (Vik)

Well, I would throw myself under the nearest bus, but considering my luck today, I'm sure it would break down less than a millimeter from me and just ruin my clothes…Probably break my watch, too. (Taryn)

Fate was a bitch, and that whore mocked them both daily.